Workmen's advocate., 1887-03-05

l may De inaugllraled almost without se- were throes of birth. What alone is needed in the meantime is enlighten- ment of the working masses (workers, both with mind and bodyj about the doom of private capitalism, doom of its own make, which cannot he pre- vented
 From this short exposition it may be seen that Socialism k the most decided enemy to both the anarchism of capital istiC class and the anarchism of those reVUmtonists who have been rendered more or less crazy by the crucities and revolting injustice of our present Jaw and ordcr,' In fact, this latter class of anarchists hate us more than they hate | the other class of anarchists, or anyb body. If they were paid by Bismarck, or the Car, or Jay Gould for destroying our or | ganlAation, they could not more efficient ly go about it than they really do. Their actions stultiiy their teachings, and rice r'rSd, They conspirc with the least en- llghtcucd and most plunt clements against us, the only apostles of better | future.
 We dO not in the least deny that we have little hope for an entirely peaceful renewal of society and politics, and that we may have to fight for the redemption of the working class from the threaten ing complete thraldom, But that war must be forced upon us-we try our best efforts to avoid il, and though this may be impossible in most of the European States, we must and do consider it pos sible in the United States, and wherever freedom of speech and of the press. the right to peacefully assemble and organ ize. and universa suffrage inclusive of the suffrage of wolnenI are not curtailed by existing laws. We are fully out spoken in our ideas and aims, all our working for redemption is above board; we shrm secret organization for our pur- poses,
 We, therefore. protest against being confounded andtin any way identified with anarchists of any,type; we are the | implacablc enemies of all anarchism. And, if we are sometimes designated as communists, we wish it to be beunderstood that our communism is different from all other communism in that we demand nothing in common but capital-the great means of labor (and buildings, machines, mOney) because all capital has been and is partly gratuitous gift of Nature to all. partly being created by the labor of all mankind, and nothing can reasonably be private property but the full proceeds of ones own labor, as agreed upon by common compromise. Our communism is not sectarian but truly universal, and compatible with the highest degree of liberty which is at all attainahl". The most correct term for our communism would, perhaps, be Collect 'i'iSNi, as it is now called in France. As regards the term nihItSm, we have to state that even in Russia, what was, half century ago, stigmatized as nihil- ism, is no longer in existence, but sup planted by either practical anarchism of q propagandistic kind, or revolutionary conspiracy of all classes, as far as their reflection has begun.
 Finally, as may be gathered from our platform, we are prOragandIStlc organ ization which goes hand in hand with the great labor movement that is now refermenting the society of the world; and we shall be rcvolutionsts only when forced into being such by legislation and persecution withholding from Ills the means of peaceable propaganda, We, Socialists, have come to stay; depend upon it.
 THE END.